I must admit that I always thought that term “freelance” was associated either to (1) that small side project you have besides your actual job to get some extra money, (2) graphic designers, or (3) coders with a lack of enthusiasm to be challenged. In the last group, I used to imagine a young guy who is not committed to or not prepared enough for getting involved on a serious project. I have no clue where this idea came from. It was probably more a perception than an actual idea, anyhow it was there.
I am from Argentina, and in my country you get lots of benefits if you work for a company such as sick days, at least two weeks per year of paid vacations, ten days for exams if you are a student, and so on. I spent 9+ years building software in industry as a Java Developer, Tech Lead, and Team Leader. I had so much fun, I learned very much, earned way more money than an average salary in my country, met great people, and worked with large distributed systems processing tens of thousands of messages per second. But not everything was great, although my project was overall quite challenging, there were long periods of time where the project was just so boring. That means no challenges, no chances to learn, no new technologies; in essence, not feeling that I was doing something valuable. I also had to commute two hours a day, had very limited opportunities to travel (which I love doing!). I eventually became quite an expert in a set of technologies but did not have exposure to other technologies I longed for trying.
During the last three years, I lived in Irvine, California, where I got an MS in Software Engineering from University of California, Irvine. That was an amazing experience in several aspects, but especially, it gave me an opportunity to see the huge variety of things people are working on in technology. I assume and I am looking forward to confirming that working remotely as a freelancer, will give me chances to work on great projects regardless of where they are geographically located.
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